Turkey to procure 100 expendable explosive USVs with swarm doctrine

Turkey plans to buy 100 one-way explosive unmanned surface vessels (USVs) from three vendors (Aselsan/Ares “Tufan”, STM/Yonca “Yaktu”, Havelsan/Sefine) intended for coordinated swarm attacks against maritime and coastal targets. The novelty is the formal procurement at scale of expendable, precision-strike USVs with low-profile hulls and LOS/satellite networking designed for cooperative swarming and task allocation, indicating an emerging naval doctrine for massed unmanned surface strikes.